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December 2011 Newsletter
Christmas open House – Dec 3rd and 4th
We are excited about our open house this year.
We will be open 9:00am to 4:00pm on Saturday and Sunday.
If you can’t make those days and you want a unique gift, we will be open every day until December 23rd. We have lots of new things this year with a supply of Solar/Termespheres and a new 540 piece spherical puzzle Termesphere that actually ends up in the form of a sphere. We will have coffee , cookies and other goodies waiting for you. Also, there are about 60 major spheres to choose from with 10% off. The Mova/Termespheres will not be part of the 10% off.
The Mova/Termespheres are finally here!
Just in time for Christmas we received a larger supply of Mova/Termespheres at the Termesphere Gallery. These signed and numbered limited edition spheres can be found on my site showing full motion. http://termespheres.com/mova/ We have the PANTHEON , FISH EYE VIEW and FROM THE EARTH. An explanation of these pieces is found below. We are very pleased to have these available before Christmas this year and our Open House. These are also the first time we have been able to reproduce my work with this kind of full color.
How Does it Work?
My Termesphere floats inside a transparent sphere. Within my sphere is a solar cell which picks up light and powers a motor that keeps the inside sphere spinning. Having it float in a liquid makes it easier for the motor to turn the sphere. The motor pushes off of the magnetic field of the Earth much like a compass. I received 60 of these spheres in the first shipment, 30 of the PANTHEON and 30 of the FISH EYE VIEW. Over the last couple of years I have had a prototype of the PANTHEON in the Gallery. The people who signed up in the gallery to be notified when they arrived were given the first chance at owning one. But as of last Friday, the Mova/Termespheres are available to everyone. As you can tell, I am very excited about this mixture of the Termesphere and the Mova Globe solar motion. It is very cool and people seem to really love them.
Califonia Art Teachers Association Convention
I went to the Califonia Art Teachers Association Convention November 4th and 5th. They asked me to be one of the keynote speakers at their state conference in Bakersfield. This was very exciting to project my videos onto their 20 foot screens and talk about my work and where it comes from. I also gave a three hours Masters class on One through Six Point Perspective for some of the teachers. It was fun to see how teachers related to my work. It went over very well.
eBook called Geometry in Art by Hilton Andrade de Mello
I wanted you to see this. It is really a very good book and he has a lot on the Termesphere in the book which I like, of course. This is a free download which is even better.
Trademark
After 43 year of painting Termespheres I now own the trademark on Termespheres. You wouldn’t think that would have to be so hard but it took forever for this to take place.
Puzzleball Sphere
Ravensburger, a German puzzle company-one of the oldest in the world, has produced a very neat 540 piece spherical puzzle of my sphere CUBICAL UNIVERSE. It is a plastic hollow sphere that fits together amazingly well.
Five Dimensional Rooms
Is my newest 12″ piece. It grew from an interesting polyhedron study of the dodecahedron. When you cut across one of the twelve pentagons with a straight line and continue that system around the polyhedron from polygon to polygon you can get a cube to appear. If you do that same system with all the sides to the pentagons you will end up with five cubes arranged around the sphere. I thought of myself inside each of these cubes, as if they were cubical rooms. But each room is at a different angle so this becomes a 30 point perspective Termesphere. The cubical rooms are color coded so you can keep track of where you are. I let a part of each cubical room be dominant for a certain period of time. Each of these five rooms have their own six point perspective. Objects like canes and boxes show up in some of the rooms which are different colors. They come from the rooms which fit their colors and their perspective fits with those rooms.
Carnegie Art Center Sphere
My latest commission is of the interior of the Carnegie Art Center in Alliance Nebraska. This is the drawing stage of a 24″ diameter sphere showing the total environment inside the center. Many of the people who have worked hard to put this Art Center together are shown throughout the painting putting up an art show or doing other activities. The paintings being put up are all scenes of Alliance. So you are seeing inside what is outside the Art Center. This sphere will hang in the spot it is hanging in the gallery.
The Summer-Is-Almost-Here Event
On MAY 28 from 9 TO 4 Everyone is invited out to the Termesphere Gallery to see the new 540 piece Termesphere Puzzleball and to check out the limited edition signed and numbered Mova/Termespheres not to mention new Termespheres, tshirts, crystals, books, finger puppets, DVDs etc. It will be fun to talk to you and show you my new work.
We are looking forward to having the gallery open from 9 to 5 everyday all summer.
The Mova/Termesphere
Two signed and numbered Mova/Termespheres limited editions have finally come into reality. It has taken a good three years but at last two limited edition Termespheres, the PANTHEON and FISH EYE VIEW are now in my gallery. Turtle Tech Design is an international company that invented the solar motion sphere, Mova, which is a sphere floating within a transparent sphere with a solar cell to provide power for the motor.
http://termespheres.com/mova is a video of these 4.5 inch Mova/Termespheres in motion. A third one called FROM THE EARTH sphere will be coming in two or three months. The motion is powered by solar energy so no batteries or gasoline is needed.
The Mova/Termesphere gives me a wonderful new magical motion and a great optical illusion as well as a totally new way to reproduce my work that allows it to be in full color.
Sphere Puzzle
Another new, very exciting addition to the Gallery is the Termesphere Puzzleball. The Termesphere, CUBICAL UNIVERSE, was used to make a jigsaw three dimensional puzzle. One of the oldest puzzle companies in the world, Ravensburger Puzzle Company from Germany contacted me a couple of years ago to see if we could work together on producing a 540 piece 8.5 inch diameter spherical puzzle of one of my Termespheres. A 16” Termesphere, CUBICAL UNIVERSE was created especially for this Puzzelball. It was inspired by a spherical painting of mine that now is owned by the Math Department at West Point Military Academy. The result is a spherical puzzle that fits together beautifully and is mounted on a stand with a mirror under it. The 540 pieces are all slightly convex which makes it form a smooth sphere. Check it out here. There are numbers on the back of the pieces for those who have trouble with puzzles.
Life’s Ups and Downs
The latest Termesphere is called LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS. It is a 16” diameter sphere which played off of a 15th century stairway in India that helped people get to a source of water far below. These stairways interested me because they didn’t just go straight up but rather up and out with each new set. If you look at the image of this sphere you will see that. As you go up to the next level you gain more and more stairs. It was a great challenge to my perspective system. In my painting, humans who are working their way up, find evil monsters under many of the stairways. They have to get by these evil creatures or confront them. Sometimes they have to go sideways or even back down the stairs to find the proper way to continue their life’s progress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1VruV5nL1o
THE SMITH RANCH SPHERE, commissioned by Jeanette and Nels Smith, is now hanging in a stairwell in their new home on Sand Creek near Beulah Wyoming. It has a wonderful home. Each new commission I do, I learn a lot about a new subject. I learned a lot about ranch life and landscape doing the Smith Ranch south of Sundance Wyoming. I learned a great deal of the history of that area too.
Shows and Lectures
I have been very busy with shows and lecture/workshops:
This March I had a wonderful experience in Lander Wyoming doing a week long residency. I had a twenty-four piece show in the Lander Library along with a lecture to explain my work. The Lander School system had me work with their student for five days. I did my workshops on perspective, drawing and three dimensional geometries. I also did a three hour workshop on 1-6 point perspective at the Art Center. They brought in the Hands-On show I put together for the Discovery Center in Pierre for young students called UP DOWN AND ALL AROUND. This was displayed in the Lander Children’s Museum. It had never traveled outside of South Dakota before. This hands-on display can be seen on youtube.
Six students studying Math/Art and three faculty members from Marshall University in Huntington West Virginia came to my gallery for a four day of workshop in April. I used the gallery as a classroom. It was a great environment to teach in with my examples hanging everywhere. It sounds like another group will be coming back next year.
Future Shows and Lectures
I have a one man show coming up in Rapid City South Dakota at the Heron’s Flight Studio Gallery June 1 through the 30th .
The Rapid City Library will have a 12 piece show of Termespheres from June 1st through June 30th.
The Grace Balloch Memorial Library in Spearfish South Dakota has an eight spheres show from May 15 through June 15th. I will be doing a video lecture on my work at the Library on May 26th at 5:30. I am also doing a workshop with the Kids Club Kids on June 10th from 9 to 12.
Libraries have been my latest venue for shows, lectures and workshops. They seem to be a perfect place for people to look while reading their book. They don’t have wall space but they do have ceiling space which is what I need.
I have a lecture at 2011 MATHFEST, The Annual Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Lexington Kentucky inAugust. While I am there, I will be doing workshops at the LIVING Arts and Science Center of Lexington.
I also have been asked to be a KEYNOTE SPEAKER at the California Art Teachers Association in Bakersfield California in November. This should be very fun.
May 2011 Newsletter
It’s a Summer-is-Here! Event
May 28th, 2011
9:00am – 4:00pm
Summer has been a long time getting here this year. After all, it is not often that we find ourselves shoveling snow on May 17th. Summer will come though and it will be warmly welcomed.
To celebrate the arrival of our elusive sun shiny friend the Termesphere Gallery will be opening the Here Comes the Sun Summer Fest doors on May 28th from 9:00am – 4:00pm.
We hope everyone can come on out to see the exciting new Termesphere products that have been created over the long, chilly winter.
MOVA/TERMESPHERS
The first is a long awaited breakthrough. We can finally offer two different signed and numbered Mova/Termespheres limited editions. the PANTHEON and FISH EYE VIEW are now in my gallery. Turtle Tech Design is an international company that invented the solar motion sphere…
TERMESPHERE PUZZLE
The second is a Ravensburger Termesphere 540 piece,spherical jigsaw puzzle. German based Ravenburger is the oldest puzzle company in the world and the puzzle is an incredibly accurate replication of the Termesphere, CUBICAL UNIVERSE.
Along with the many 6 point perspective Termespheres (both new creations and pieces you may be familiar with) the gallery offers our exclusive product selection of crystals, books, t-shirts, puppets, DVDs and much more.
SUMMER GALLERY HOURS ARE
9:00am to 4:00pm – 7 days a week
Come out this weekend to get a sneak peek, visit with artist Dick Termes and his puppeteer wife, Markie Scholz and the Gallery summer staff at our Here Comes the Sun Summer Fest.
Latest Termesphere
The latest Termesphere is called LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS.
It is a 16″ diameter sphere which played off of a 15th century stairway in India that helped people get to a source of water far below. These stairways interested me because they didn’t just go straight up but rather up and out with each new set. If you look at the image of…
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Shows and Lectures
I have been very busy with shows and lecture/workshops:
This March I had a wonderful experience in Lander Wyoming doing a week long residency. I had a twenty-four piece show in the Lander Library along with a lecture to explain my work. The Lander School system had me work with their student for five days. I did my workshops on perspective, drawing and three dimensional…
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Future Shows and Lectures
I have a one man show coming up in Rapid City South Dakota at the Heron’s Flight Studio Gallery June 1 through the 30th .
The Rapid City Library will have a 12 piece show of Termespheres from June 1st through June 30th.
The Grace Balloch Memorial Library in Spearfish South Dakota has an eight spheres show from May 15 through June 15th. I will be doing a video lecture on my work at the Library on May 26th at 5:30. I am also doing a…
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November 2010 Newsletter
We are excited about our open house this year. We will be open 9 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday. If you can’t make those days and you want a unique gift, we will be open every day until December 23rd. We have lots of new things this year with a supply of Solar/Termespheres and a new 540 piece spherical puzzle Termesphere that actually ends up in the form of a sphere. We will have coffee , cookies and other goodies waiting for you. Also, there are about 60 major spheres to choose from with 10% off. The Mova/Termespheres will not be part of the 10% off.
The Mova/Termespheres are finally here!
After about three years of exploring the concept, the Mova Globe Company and the Termesphere Gallery have joined together to produce some wonderful new pieces of art. We have put together a great site to see these at
www.termespheres.com/mova
I teamed up with Mova Globes Company and together we have created limited edition, 4.5 inch diameter Termespheres that contain solar cells that cause the spheres to rotate almost magically. The revolutionary device inside the Mova globes compliments the Termespheres perfectly. They are actually a sphere within a clear sphere with liquid between them so the inside one floats. Because they need no batteries or plugs, these revolving three-dimensional environments can be enjoyed and admired anywhere. They even spin in your hands if you hold them.
They are each signed and numbered. In the end we will make no more than 3000 of each one. There are currently two Mova/Termespheres available with a third one coming soon. The PANTHEON and FISH EYE VIEW are the ones we have at this point. FROM THE EARTH is coming soon.
I received 60 of these spheres in the first shipment, 30 of the PANTHEON and 30 of the FISH EYE VIEW. Over the last couple of years I have had a prototype of the PANTHEON in the Gallery. The people who signed up in the gallery to be notified when they arrived were given the first chance at owning one. But as of last Friday, the Mova/Termespheres are available to everyone. As you can tell, I am very excited about this mixture of the Termesphere and the Mova Globe solar motion. It is very cool and people seem to really love them.
New Commission: The Smith Ranch Sphere
I have been commissioned by Nels Smith and his wife Jeanette to paint a 24″ Termesphere of the Smith Ranch. SMITH RANCH SPHERE has been in process for a number of months now. I am working at capturing the feeling of the land and the Smith family who have lived on the ranch since 1909. One of the main focal points of the ranch is Inyan Kara Mountain. Bob Daczewitz his brother in law and I climbed it this summer. One of the reasons was to find a rock on the top that Custer had carved his name into. It didn’t take long to find the carving because when you know Custer, you know he would carve it on the VERY TOP. We found it and also were very impressed with the view from the top. Custer was trying to find a cut across through the Black Hills. I was looking for artistic views for my spherical painting. The mountain is like a large spiral leading to its rocky top. It took us 6 ½ hours to go up and down it but it was a wonderful experience.
This painting will incorporate four different views of Inyan Kara Mountain. It will show up around the sphere like you were traveling around the mountain. Usually when you look in at my paintings you are conceptually looking out. In this case you will be looking in at the mountain but circling it also. I have gone through historical photos of the ranch, special event that have happened there and people such as Nels Smith’s grandfather that was a Governor of Wyoming. It is starting to shape up very well at this point.
New Sphere: Caged
This new sphere takes advantage of the illusion of the sphere looking like a hole or flipping concave. When you first look at this piece you think you are looking at birds in a cage. After some study you realize you are the one in the cage and the birds are outside looking in at you. This video shows it very well. If you find yourself in the cage, I am not sure if you will find a way to get back out. But it’s OK, you should have lots of friends that have ended up there with you too.
Lakota Headmen piece has moved to California.
This painting has an interesting story behind it. After I started this six sided pyramid teepee painting I realized if I were going to include the great Lakota Headmen I should find out from the Lakota elders who they felt were their great headmen or chiefs. Not only was this going to be a painting for me but I also had a commission from the Little Wound High School in Kyle South Dakota to work with art students to build an eight foot replica for their commons area within the school.
One evening, I went to Kyle and met with the elders of the town. They picked who they felt were the Headmen who should be on the painting. It wasn’t just who they felt were great leaders but also who were important historically. When I finished my piece, we used it to project onto the larger format for the school. I worked with the students on the larger piece allowing them to choose the colors they thought fit.
The finished piece was brighter than the prototype but it worked well. One student came up to me with a suggestion of adding their school out the door of the teepee. I thought this was a great idea, connecting the past to the present and the future. He designed the image and painted it in the doorway. This was done in 1999. It still hangs in the common area of Little Wound High School.
Termes Featured on WheresEldo.BlogSpot.com
Jeannie and her husband, Eldy visited the Gallery on their travels in their RV. Jeannie writes a wonderful blog about the interesting and exciting things they see and do. Her entry about the Gallery is great so I thought I would share it with you.
Creative Connection 2010
I will be going to Creative Connections again this year in Oberwesel Germany. Creative Connections is a wonderful program offered for the DoDDs High School students. The students compete to attend this week long art camp. 150 students are selected. Teachers are available in theater, drumming, visual arts, and music. I teach spherical thinking but I will include Optical Illusions this year as well. Each teacher has between 12 and 15 students for an intense week. This year it is scheduled for the week of November 14th thru the 19th. I will tell you more on how that works out when I get back.
The Sixth Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House
The Sixth Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House is fast approaching! December 4th and 5th are the days. I hope you can stop out or go to the website, www.Termespheres.com. For those two days, everything–except the Mova/Termespheres–is 10% off—both at the Gallery and on the website.
Winter hours at the Gallery
The Termesphere Gallery has shifted to winter (more casual) hours. We are open 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. But sometimes we go for coffee…or lunch so it would be a good idea to call to make sure someone is here at 605 642-4805.
November 2009 Newsletter
6th Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House
December 5th and 6th
Be sure to mark it on your calendars! Come see the new Termespheres, and all sorts of other Christmas ideas—tee shirts, puppets, DVD’s, puzzles, Captured Worlds and many more surprises And as always—10% off!
Stephen Hawking’s UNE BELLE HISTORIRE DU TEMPS
I have been notified that THE BIG BANG, a 24 inch diameter Termesphere, will illustrate the cover of the French addition of Stephen Hawking’s best selling book A BRIEF HISTORY of TIME. This book was first published in 1998 and has since been reprinted numerous times. Stephen Hawkings, a theoretical physicist has spent his career working on basic laws which …
THE PANTHEON has been purchased
(My painting, not the real Pantheon)
Dr. James Jones, president of Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut has purchased THE PANTHEON Termesphere. Dr. Jones says it is now hanging over the family Steinway in the public living room in the President’s Residence. Dr. Jones thought this would be an ideal place because “thousands of people pass through the public rooms of the president’s house every year.”…
What galleries are showing Termespheres?
- Deadwood Lead Arts Council Gallery
- Flaten Art Gallery, St. Olaf University
- Heron Flight Studio
- The Altitude Gallery
- The Spearfish Chamber of Commerce
- The Black Hills State University Library
Commission I am working on: WE THE PEOPLE
This 30″ diameter sphere will belong to Stan Adelstein and Lynda Clark. WE THE PEOPLE is exploring the Freedoms we have in America and how the Constitution has helped to protect those Freedoms.. The trees represent some of the different Freedoms while the in-between spaces of the branches contain images of the people who have helped create some of the Freedoms. The roots of the trees show our Forefathers…
New YouTube Videos
I have been having a great time putting up YouTube videos of my work. YouTube is the perfect way to show my spheres in motion and give a brief explanation of them. For a look around the Termesphere Gallery in the…
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